Improvement in loom-pickers



A. HOLBRO'OK.

Loom-Picker.

No. 207,739. Patented Sept. 3,1878.

Witneaaeur. lauziiaolng.

N-PETERs. PHOTO-LITHOGRAFHER, WASHINGTON, D. 0.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIUE.

ALBERT HOLBROOK, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

IMPROVEMENT IN LOOM-PICKERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 207,739, datedSeptember 3, 1878; application filed July 19,1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT HOLBROOK, of the city and county ofProvidence, and State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and-usefulImprovement in Loom-Pickers; and do hereby declare the same to bedescribed in the following specification and represented in theaccompanying drawings, of which Figure 1 is a side elevation, and Figs.2 and 3 opposite end views, of a rawhide picker made in accordance withmy improvement.

It is composed of two sheets, A B, of rawhide, laid flatwise one on theother and lapped at their middles around a cylindrical rod, so as toform the guide 0 and its eye a, after which they are laid or lappedtogether, as shown at I) b b I), to form the neck D of the picker, afterwhich each is bent outward and upward and folded inward, in manner asrepresented at 0 cl 0 f0 (1 e f in Figs. 2 and 3, in order to form thepicker-head E. Such havin g been done, rivets are to be inserted throughthe neck and head, as shown at g, h, and 4}, those marked h and i beingin the head and the rest in the neck.

In order to cause the sheets and folds to adhere together, I usuallyemploy cement, laid upon their surfaces to be so connected.

From the above it will be seen that the picker-head is composed of twopairs of layers of rawhide, arranged against each other, and bentoutward at an acute angle to each other, thence upward and inward anddownward, whereby each pair is folded back upon itself within the head,and the fold laid against that of the other pair, all beingsubstantially as shown; also, that the pairs so bent and folded areconnected by rivets going laterally through the head.

The above-described mode of constructing the head of a picker has beenfound in prac tice to be very effective and to render the head verydurable. It saves all necessity of constructing the head in part ofpieces separate from those forming the neck and the guide or portion 0containing the eye.

In consequence of the head being so made, one or more separatefilling-pieces are not usually required in the head, and therefore alldanger of such working loose and being thrown out of place in or ofacting as wedges to burst open the head is avoided.

I claim 1. As an improved manufacture, the picker made substantially asdescribed-"in, of the two rawhide sheets A B, arranged fiatwise one uponthe other, and folded at their middles so as to form the guide 0 and theneck D, and subsequently bent outward and folded in and together, neartheir ends, essentially in manner as shown, to form the head E, theparts folded together being connected by rivets, as set forth.

2. The picker provided with a head, E, constructed substantially as setforthviz., of two pairs of layers of rawhide laid together, and eachbent outward from the other, and thence upward and inward, and foldeddownward upon itself and lapped on the other, essentially asrepresented.

ALBERT HOLBROOK.

Witnesses:

It. H. EDDY, JOHN R. Snow.

